AWS EC2 (Windows Server)
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
compute/aws-ec2says email, compute/aws-ec2-windows says card
- Free allowance
- USD 100 of credit on a new account, inside the 6-month free-plan window after which the account closes
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, phone required
- Binding limit
- per-ip-shaping100 GB a month of free data transfer out, aggregated across all AWS services
- Evidence
- reported6 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-17checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-11-17
| Free tier | USD 100 of credit on a new account, inside the 6-month free-plan window after which the account closes unit mixed; metered on wall-clock |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
not stated |
| Identity | card a card and a phone number: 'You can't proceed with the sign-up process until you add a valid payment method.' and 'This number is used for identity verification purposes and to confirm the ownership of your account.', with an SMS code to a number reachable in the next few minutes during sign-up. Country limit: an account whose billing address is in India is contracted to AWS India, which charges the payment method 2 INR and refunds it, so India is the one country with an extra verification step on the sign-up page. |
| Egress | not stated |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | unknown |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Evidence note | reported the on-demand pricing page was read on 2026-10-22. It establishes the billing unit and the 100 GB egress allowance |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 6
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ | 'Pricing is per instance-hour consumed for each instance, from the time an instance is launched until it is terminated or stopped' and 'AWS customers receive 100 GB of free data transfer out to the internet free each month', quoted; the Windows licence is a separate line |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/getting-starte | sign-up cannot finish without a payment method, so the account gate is a card |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/getting-starte | a phone number is required for identity verification at sign-up |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/getting-starte | an Indian billing address puts the account under AWS India, with a 2 INR verification charge |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/getting-starte | the payment method is mandatory before sign-up can finish, and the phone step follows it |
More fields 6
| keep rate | 1.0 |
|---|---|
| billing model | unclassified |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "no session cap; the licence bills with the instance hour"} |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"per_session_bytes": "100 GB a month free egress"} |
| free tier kind | one-time-credit |
| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 60,"rounding_s": null} |
Unknown values 10
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- limits note: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field